California · Nonprofit
WHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST
WHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST (California) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,340,169 to it, the largest being Woka Foundation ($1,350,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 60
- Grants received
- $7.3M
- Net assets
- $4.2M
What White Buffalo Land Trust does
Mission
White Buffalo Land Trust practices, promotes, and develops systems of regenerative agriculture for local, regional, and global impact.we are committed to the evolution of land stewardship and the redesign of our food system to directly address the climate, biodiversity, public health, and food security challenges that we face today.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
We established the 1,000-acre center for regenerative agriculture at jalama canyon ranch in santa barbara county, california. The center serves as a global hub for regenerative land stewardship, ecological research and monitoring, education, training, and enterprise development.
$1,998,937 spent$309,992 earned by the program100% of program spendingWe have influenced management practices on over 156,000 acres of land through our consulting and training programs.
We have directly engaged 2,200 community members in our education programs and another 17,000+ through our opt-in digital community.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,998,937.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.0M to $4.1M (+101%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 5% · 2022 4% · 2023 5% · 2024 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of WHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 22 funders, grant income rose $45k → $1.6M.
15 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of WHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
WHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
29% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund WHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 61% · 2020 39% · 2021 38% · 2022 33% · 2023 31% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
40% of WHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
67% of WHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
WHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST has grown faster than half of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding WHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.3M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$5.3M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like WHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST?
- WHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST (California) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,340,169 to it, the largest being Woka Foundation ($1,350,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $7,340,169 in grants to WHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST?
- Woka Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 60 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing